Clause 24 - Advance decisions to refuse treatment: general
Mental Capacity Bill
10:00 am
Mr Tim Boswell (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Daventry, Conservative)
Does the hon. Lady recall that the Minister said earlier—in respect of the clause on principles, I think—that information is the cardinal point of the Bill? Therefore, a person in the position that she describes should be entitled to proper clinical information on the likely consequence of his actions, and to an appraisal of whether, to use the old phrase, the balance of his mind is disturbed in coming to any decision.